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Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
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Date: 
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:10:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:

But yes, it's biased. That's the point!  That's the society I want to
see us return toward, a society in which everyone knows that if they
work hard and are clever, they've got just as much chance as the next
guy of getting rich, and if they don't want to work, they are going to
starve.

  Yowza!  When did this society exist?  I'd also love to return to it!  It
must be millennia since everyone had an equal chance of getting rich, and
certainly never in the US!

     Dave!



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  Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
 
(...) I disagree here, but I'm a cynical little punk. :) I think people in general are only as industrious as they have to be. I don't think the mean is quite as low as "lazy" tends to imply, but I do think the mean is too low for a system that (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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